Well done Pete! I must say that HP seems to have a penchant for writing noxious, intrusive software. I had a HP driver that managed to install a kernel module. Every time I updated software I would get two warnings about the module until I managed to uninstall module and remove the driver. If a native Apple version of the driver exists and it meets your needs, it might be a better choice.
Cheers, Carlo On 01/11/2011, at 22:34 , Pete Smith wrote: > G'day all. > > I asked a question at the meeting this evening which stumped the experts. So > when I got home I tried google followed by an experiment and this is what > transpired. > > First off, I located some odd document files on my "Macintosh HD". The names > consisted of a combination of '%' letters and numbers. For example the > shortest file name was %A5 whilst the longest was > g%E4%B9%E4%C7%E4%C8%E4%CA%E4%C8%E4X%E4%E4%E4%E3?%E33%E33%E3?%E3%D7%E3M%E4%EB%E4%F7%E43%E5%D4%E5%A8%E5L%E5L%E5L%E5%91%E4d%E5%BE%E5%F5%E5%F5%E5f%E6%E6!%E6%E0%E5%E0%E5%D0%E5%C8%E5%B4%E5%8D%E5y%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5a%E5e%E5a%E5e%E5. > > When opening using TextEdit, there was a whole series of various operations > that appeared to have been logged. They all appeared to be repeats of this: > > "kernel size = 5 (range 3..15) > volume thresh = 5.0000 > t1 = 15 > gray step = 256.00 > gray diff thresh = 3840.0000 > resolution = 200 > scale = 100 > effective res = 200 > > Tdustnscratch: level = 2 > Tdustnscratch: start time: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 > Tdustnscratch: begin detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 > Tdustnscratch: begin applyMedianFilter: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 > Tdustnscratch: end detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 > Tdustnscratch: begin reconstruct: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 > 2011" > > Only the dates were different. > > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found information in Apple Support > Communities whereby it appears to be related to my HP all-in-one > scanner/printer. > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337802?start=0&tstart=0> > > So I did a little experiment. I trashed the files and then scanned a couple > of book covers for my Bento library as I usually do. Lo and behold, a new > file named "%FF%FF%8B," appeared on the "Macintosh HD". > > The only 'problem' left is that the file was created 20 minutes ago but, even > though I have shut down HP Scan and turned the scanner off, the file still > says" Fetching..." in the Last Opened area of the preview (I'm using columns > in Finder) and TextEdit won't open it. I've replaced all the trashed files > but that didn't help so I've trashed 'em all again and the new file is still > fetching... - 25 minutes now. > > So I've trashed it too and now it's no longer fetching!!!!!! > > I am no longer worried about the files. > > So that's me happy now and off to bed. > > Cheers all, > > Pete Smith > > iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM > 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.8 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
